An (in)auspicious milestone

[mbarrick]

Behold the 10,000th picture made with my Big Black Camera of Doom™ I bought the thing February 18th, 2005. This 10,000th trip of the shutter occurred April 16th, 2006. That's an average of just short of 24 images a day (23.7) in that time. Hooray for digital. No way I would have blown through a roll of film every day for 14 months. This image is from the photo-booth I had set up at Sanctuary at the Red Room on Sunday. It wasn't exactly a successful endeavour - I sold all of  two prints. Considering materials that just covers the cab ride to the club, excluding tip. At Sin City it works well because people aren't allowed to bring in their own cameras and I'm the only way they can go home with a souvenir. At ordinary club nights like Sanctuary everybody and their dog has a digital camera these days (take note, third year girl, because the same is true of Blender). Nonetheless, I think I'll give it a few more tries before I give up since I did get a few pictures that I quite like. The next long weekend isn't until Victoria Day now and until my hours change, setting up on regular Sundays isn't really an option (although I do want to get out with the stereo camera again). And, as an aside, the aforementioned obnoxious "third year girl" chose to rear her ugly head full of sophistry again last Thursday at Blender. I wonder if she will be confronting partianskeey (DJ Herr Doktor) next week seeing as he posted more pictures to Gothic BC than I did?

Comments

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Yup. Ben = partianskeey

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've edited to put that in.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

mmmm...organic asparagus...

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

i'd give it a few tries till people "get" the idea. I think it's cool myself.

I'd go for it when I didn't look like baked death.

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

who is third year girl? I'm curious!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what her name is.

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

Interesting that Rob happens to be wearing a t-shirt that says 'Achiever' for this shot!

Nah, I wouldn't ever think of actually setting up a full-on booth at a weekly regular club night ... bringing the camera along for fun, sure, but the whole get-up? No way. As for when you -do- want to do it, for sure let's give it a couple more goes --- I think the spot you were in was perfect, but we need more light and generally to make it more noticeable both to people in the club proper and so people notice it right when they first walk in. It was pretty dark and hidden in that corner ... I'm pretty sure we can drive a lot more action to a photo booth on long weekends.

I thought that silver matte backdrop worked really well! It didn't seem to reflect much and highlighted the blacks in the subjects most admirably ... I'll bring it in again next time and have it set up and roped off before we open to make things even easier, and tinker with the setup to get a power drop there while still keeping the lights in the area on.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I have an ancient two-prong splitter that will do the job for getting power for the printer and keeping the other spots alive so there is light in that corner. I'll redo the sign to make it clear that it only costs money if people want a print, which should get more people stepping up.

We'll give it a better go on the Victoria Day weekend.

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

I have BOXES of power bars & professional extension AC cables, all of which i typically have to bring for projectors, DJ work lights and such. No worries there - I can take care of that. Just worry about your own gear and signage and I'll have the power drop sorted for you!